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List of components with their meanings published by a reliable source
I want to learn more about the meaning of the radicals of simplified chinese characters, because I feel that by knowing what each radical means, I can have a better understanding of the meaning of the ...
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Are there any tools for combining multiple radicals into a single character?
I would essentially perform the inverse of this question: I would like to combine multiple radicals into a single character, disregarding if they actually exist or not. Does such a tool exist?
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What is the procedure for typing cangjie here?
I've been typing Mandarin with pinyin input for years and have never found it terribly difficult to learn. However, I am finding that when I need to use website and type Cantonese expressions, I find ...
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Example of Mandarin characters that can not be expressed through other characters, Kangxi radicals or CJK strokes?
I had question about the expression of one character into the radicals and I found the answer myself Does 习 contain the alterantive hook (Kangxi 6) radical and is more information available about this ...
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Besides the radical, what meaning does the rest of a Chinese character have (especially when it was originally created)?
I am a beginning student of Mandarin Chinese. There is a key thing about Chinese characters that I am trying to understand. Besides the radical, what purpose does the rest of a character have? Was it ...
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When 马 is used as the left component (e.g. in 骑), does the 一 héng stroke change to ㇀ tí?
I am thinking about the 马 character. I know that when you use 土 and 车 on the left in a composed character (like 地,场... and 较,辆 ...) the 3rd stroke in 土, and the 4th in 车 change from 一 héng to ㇀ tí.
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Chinese character decomposition
I found that many (most?) Chinese characters look like they're composed of more primitive ones, like:
做 = 亻十口夂
你 = 亻尔
吃 = 卩乙
and so on.
I this a real phenomenon or just my European imagination?
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Why is the character 中 listed as a 嵌套结构 (nested structure) and not a 单一结构 (single component)?
I'm studying character components using guoxuedashi, a online service/dictionary where you can filter by components, and there's LOTS of them. The thing is, they use a different system of ...